cad is not hard - you can teach yourself with some patience and perserverence. isn't there a tutorial with the software?

print your .pgp file and follow the commands...you will be a cad god in less than a work week

le bossman posted a very good suggestion.
another good way is to draw plans, sections, elevations of a builing you like (villa savoye would be a good one to learn on)...

one thing that helped me learn is remember that the program is there to help you, not to make your life harder.

First go to the call Autodesk See if they will buy it back.
Second go buy Archicad.
Third you thank me later.

Desktop will be retired eventually and we'll all be Reviting, like a frog....

older versions of AutoDesk Architectural Desktop have a GUI that was obivously created by higher intelligence. it's just that human intelligence has yet to evlove that far. I hope 2005 is better?